Connect to a running terminal process

[Crispy Beef]

Hi,

I've got a machine running Gentoo that I've had to leave on, this has a gnome terminal opened up and is connected to another remote gentoo box. What I'd like to know is if it's possible to "attach" to that process and carry on where I left off? I have ssh access to the machine I left and can see the gnome-terminal process.

Might be a bit of a silly question I guess, but I've not had the need to do this before. Maybe I should have used something like screen?
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[Dan]

Yes if you had run "screen" then started your work, you could attach to it from anywhere with screen -x if you didn't screen it then you can't attach to it.
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[venquessa2]

Some folks recommend putting screen in your login script. .bash_profile is good. I've not tried it myself though. You always seem to forget to run screen when you need it though
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[attrezzo]

You might be able to use VNC to do it... Just make sure you don't let it attach to xdm/gdm

http://gentoo-wiki.com/VNC

Also if you're going to do this over the net I'd tunnel into the box via ssh.

[Crispy Beef]

Yeah, thought it was screen, guess it's one of those things and I'll have to wait until I get down there tomorrow. Cheers for the replies...will look into VNC too.
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[Crispy Beef]

Doing a VNC session through an ssh tunnel looks very interesting, I should be able to configure that now as I have complete ssh access. Cheers.
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[nobspangle]

I doubt VNC will work as you will have to restart X to be able to control session 0